Iain Farrington

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Iain Farrington performs extensively as a pianist and organist both in the UK and abroad. He studied piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music, London with Michael Dussek and Andrew West and gained a DipRAM, the highest grade for a postgraduate. He has also participated in masterclasses with Malcolm Martineau at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh.

As a pianist, Iain has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room, the Proms 2004, the Royal Opera House, Harewood House, St David's Hall, Cardiff, and in Japan,
South Africa, and Jordan. He has worked with John Mark Ainsley, David Wilson-Johnson, Lesley Garrett, the Royal Ballet, the BBC Singers and Almeida Opera, under Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Colin Davis and Thomas Àdes. In 2001, he won the Megan Foster Accompanist Prize in the Maggie Teyte Competition. Iain is the accompanist for the London Philharmonic Choir, and also works regularly with European Voices, the London Symphony Chorus and the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, under such conductors as Richard Hickox and Mark Elder.

Iain has given solo piano recitals in the National Portrait Gallery and the British Embassy, Latvia. For the Proms 2001, he performed solo and chamber works by Esa Pekka Salonen, broadcast live on BBC Radio Three. With the Endymion Ensemble, Iain has performed in the Purcell Room and St John's Smith Square, and with the Farrington Ensemble in the Windsor Festival, the Pump Rooms, Bath and the Halifax Festival.

Iain was Organ Scholar at St John's College, Cambridge University. With the College Choir he toured extensively, gave regular broadcasts on BBC Radio Three and recorded four CD's on the Naxos and Nimbus labels, including an award-winning disc of Howells. Iain has given organ recitals in Reykyavik,
Icelandand Westminster Cathedral and accompanied choirs in Latvia, Sweden, France, Hungary, the
Czech Republic and Birmingham Symphony Hall. With the BBC Singers he has performed in Holland and the Spitalfields Festival, and recorded music by Duruflé, Holloway, Weir, Tippett, Maxwell Davies, Lennox and Michael Berkeley. He was previously Organ Scholar at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle where he played for numerous Royal occasions.

Iain is a prolific arranger, having made over eighty arrangements for organ, piano and chamber ensembles. His solo piano arrangement of Elgar/Payne Symphony No.3 is published by Boosey and Hawkes. As a composer, Iain has written works for organ, piano, chorus and ensemble. Two movements from his organ suite Fiesta! have recently been recorded on the Hyperion label by Christopher Herrick, and the piece has been performed across Europe, New Zealand and in Westminster Abbey.

Iain's website is www.iainfarrington.com

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